My Saviour to Praise!

Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. – Hebrews 7:25

Consider how great this Man was, and as you consider, believe in His infinite power to bless men. He is full of blessing as the sun is full of light, that He may shine upon His needy creatures. Christ is full of blessing that He may bless poor, needy, empty sinners. Dost thou say, poor sinner, “I am so great a sinner that He cannot save me”? Consider what this Man did when He was here on earth; He went about and laid His hands on the diseased, and they were cured; He looked at devils, and they fled; He spoke to fevers and they disappeared. And He in heaven is, and if I may so say, greater than when He was here below, for here on earth He was veiled in humiliation, but now He is enthroned in infinite majesty, “able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Believe in the infinite blessedness treasured up in Christ for every believing soul, and come and take your share of it. All that you want, and all that wish-come and receive freely, for He doth graciously dispense it, and it is a part of His glory that He delights to enrich the children of men. Let faith in Jesus be one lesson-may God write it on each heart.

“Let Him be crowned with majesty
That bowed His head to death;
And be His honour sounded high
By all things that
have breath.”

“Oh what shall I do
My Saviour to praise!”

Do something; and having done it do more, and yet more. Give up your whole being to the showing forth of how great this Man is! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Hallelujah, Hallelujah! HALLELUJAH!

Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast led captivity captive: Thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. – Psalm 68:18

He has gone up on high, and has led captivity captive. Think of the gifts which were showered down from heaven in consequence of this Man’s ascent into the highest. For the Holy Spirit descended never to return till the close of this dispensation, and now all the gifts that rest in the Church of God, and all the works of regeneration, illumination, sanctification, and the like, which are wrought by the blessed Paraclete, are the effects of the entrance of this Man into the secret place of the tabernacles of the Most High. Every soul regenerated, every heart comforted, every mind quickened, every eye illuminated, every creature spiritually blessed, reflects glory upon this Man. How great is He!

HALLELUJAH. For He shall reign for ever and ever. HALLELUJAH! Break forth with your loud hosannas, oh, ye waiting spirits of believing men, for the time is at hand when He shall be admired in all them that believe! Consider how great this Man is. I have but reached the fringe of my subject. We see but the skirts of our Lord’s garments; His actual glory is unspeakable, unsearchable. Oh, the depths! Oh, the depths! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Life Imparted to All Who Are in Him

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. – 1 Corinthians 15:22

Beloved, I cannot speak as I would of Him. The blaze of this Sun blinds me! Yet consider how great this man was in His death; for then He appeared as the great Sin-offering, putting away the sin of His people. The Lord had made to meet in Him the iniquity of us all. What a weight was on Him, yet He sustained it! The wrath of God on account of sin fell upon Him who had never sinned, and He bore it all. A penalty which must have made a hell for us for ever was exacted of our Lord upon the cross, and He discharged it. He drank the whole of our bitter cup. He bore in Himself all that was necessary to vindicate the divine justice until He could truly say, “It is finished.” “Lama Sabachthani” is the most terrible word that ever came from human lips; and therefore “It is finished” is the greatest utterance that tongue ever gave forth. The work was colossal; what if I say it was infinite; and therefore our Lord Jesus when He cried “It is finished,” had reached the summit of greatness.

Now, beloved, consider for a minute “how great this Man was” when He rose again; for He could not be holden with the bonds of death, and His body could not see corruption. It was a great thing in itself for Christ to rise, but what I want you to remember is, that we all rose in Him. “As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive;” and especially His covenanted people were raised up together with Him. There was for His redeemed a death in His death and a rising again in His rising again; for we have been made partakers of His resurrection, and we live in newness of life by His rising from the dead. This is His cry as He rises from the tomb, “Because I live ye shall live also.” “Consider how great this Man was” whose life imparts life to all who are in Him. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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He is Reality Itself

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. – Luke 19:10

If the Christian religion were supposed to be an invention, the existence of the narrative of the life of Jesus would be more wonderful than the facts themselves. The conception of a perfect character requires a perfect mind, and a perfect mind would never have prepared a fiction and imposed it upon men as a veritable history. If the life of Jesus be a fable, then a perfect being has deceived us; and this it is not possible for us to imagine. The life of Jesus Christ is great throughout. It is so tender and so gentle that it is never little and mean: it is so unselfish that it never ceases to be majestic; it is so condescending that it is pre-eminently sublime. Above all, it is full of truth, transparent, artless, natural. No one ever thought of Jesus as acting a part yet; He is reality itself. He is so simple, so unaffected, so truly the holy child Jesus, that in this He is great above all. Never was a man so wholly seen as the Christ; and yet never was man so little understood…it is Himself that is so great-I mean His soul, His spirit, the man Himself.

Consider the Lord Jesus, and it does not matter where you view Him: in the wilderness He is grandly victorious over temptation, in the crowd He is greatly wise in answering those who would entrap Him. Behold Him in His agony in the Garden; was there ever such an Agoniser? Behold Him as the crucified; did ever a cross hold such a sufferer? When Jesus is least He is greatest, and when He is in the direst darkness His brightness is best revealed. In death He destroys death; in the grave He bursts the sepulcher. “Consider how great this Man was”: the field of His life is ample; do not be slow to investigate it. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Saints Are Blessed in Him

And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the Church, Which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all. – Ephesians 1:22, 23

Consider the relationship of Christ to His own people. Now we get on sure ground, and feel a rock beneath our feet. Long before the heavens and the earth were made, God with prescient eye beheld the person of His Son as God in human nature, and He saw all His elect lying in Him. The Church is His body, “the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.” God the Father saw in the divine decree the mystical Christ, and He was well pleased with all His redeemed for Christ Jesus’ sake. How wondrous was that transaction when in the council-chamber of eternity the covenant was made, and the Lord Jesus Christ became the surety of that covenant. He entered into covenant with the eternal God on the behalf of His chosen that He would make atonement for their sin, and would perfect the righteousness which should cover every one of them, and make them to be accepted in the Beloved. No actual sacrifice was offered for thousands of years; but see how great this man was, since on the strength of His bare promise the Lord continued to save men for thousands of years, admitting them to His infinite glory before the Mediator had appeared, or the Redeemer had put a hand to the work. Consider that you and I, and all of us who are in Christ, are this day beloved for His sake, accepted for His sake, justified for His sake. Still doth God embrace us in the arms of almighty love for His sake; for His sake heaven is being prepared for us; for His sake the treasures of the infinite are given to us; because we are the covenanted ones for whom He pledged His troth, and for whom in the fulness of time He poured out His heart’s blood, that He might redeem us unto God. “Consider how great this man was.” He is so great that all the saints are blessed in Him. He is so great that we, as many as have believed, dwell evermore in the clefts of this great Rock, and find in Him our castle and high tower. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. “Consider how great this Man was.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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An Amnesty Proclaimed through This Man

Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. – 1 Corinthians 15:47

Christ Jesus is the second man, the Lord from heaven. Adam, our first father, was the head of the race, and all men were in him as their representative: in him they stood in the garden; in him, alas, they fell when he broke the divine command, and the Lord took up the quarrel of His covenant, and cast him out of Paradise. “Oh, what a fall was there, my brethren: then you and I and all of us fell down.” We inherit, because of Adam’s failure, a nature whose tendencies are towards evil…But now comes in the Lord Jesus Christ as the greater man, the representative man, in whom none are made to fall, but multitudes arise. In this man the Lord is again well pleased with men. Time was when God looked on rebellious man, and it repented Him that He had made him; but now that He turns His eye to this perfect man He feels no such repentance; but, on the contrary, we read that “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.” For the sake of the man Christ Jesus He deals with the innumerable race of sinners in a way of long-suffering and pity, and does not destroy them…Yea, more; for His sake He sends the gospel of peace to men, and in the name of Jesus glad tidings are sent to every creature. It has sometimes happened that the illustrious deed of one man has served to elevate a class, or even a nation into honour. A grand, heroic deed has welded you not only to that one person but to all His kith and kin. Consider, then, how great this Man was, that the divine mind which cannot look upon sin without indignation, nevertheless was so charmed to look upon the person and character of this glorious Man, that an amnesty was proclaimed to the race, and a message was sent to the sons of men bidding them repent and turn to Him and live. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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One with Him

“The LORD has sworn and will not relent, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek’ ” by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. – Hebrews 7: 21, 22

I do not think it should be a matter of option with you whether you will now consider the greatness of your Lord or not; it is His due and right that you should consider His greatness. For He of whom we speak,-“this Man,” is one well known among us. If you be true to your profession He is one most dear to you, to whom you owe all things, aye, owe your very selves. He is one between whom and you there is a troth plighted: you are espoused unto Him, your hearts are His, even as His heart is yours. If you do not consider Him, who will? He has loved you, and given Himself for you. Strangers may listen to our teaching at this time, and in vain we may cry,

“Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
Is it nothing to you that Jesus should die?”

But you are no stranger, you are not even a guest in His house, but you are a child living at home with Him. He is your brother, and much more; for He is bone of your bone, and flesh of your flesh. All your interests are wrapped up in Him. You are one with Him: by an endless union, one. I claim, therefore, and I am sure you assent at once to the claim, that you should often consider your Lord, and the greatness of His nature, person, office, and work. His greatness should be your perpetual theme…I urge it on you that you do now consider with your whole heart and mind, how great this Man is. Do you not consent to the claim? ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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